- Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am in fact 100% American.
- The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself--it will teach you humility if nothing else.
- There's a moment towards the end of certain kinds of comedy when they ought to get a little nasty.
- Children are often better actors than adults, because they have a greater capacity for believing in a situation.
- Sometimes hysteria in production problems can be communicated successfully as energy up on the screen.
- Movies are an incidental byproduct of deals.
- The great directors managed to dissolve and disappear into the work. They make other people look good.
- [on Whisky Galore! (1949)] It looks like a home-movie; it doesn't look as if it was made by a professional at all. And it wasn't.
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